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2751. Later Opposition Under Xerxes and Artaxerxes

Ezra 4:6-24

Understanding Series

Leslie C. Allen

... delay that lasts until the new, successful attempt narrated in chapters 5–6. The opponents are vaguely called the “people of the land” (NRSV) in verse 4, another term for the “peoples of the lands” (NJPS) in 3:3. Verse 1 replaces this general label with the emotive enemies of Judah and Benjamin, which prepares readers for the sequel in verses 4–5. It warns them not to take the offer of help at face value, but to judge fair words in light of foul acts that hindered the work of God. These enemies ...

2752. Haman's Rage Against Mordecai

Esther 5:9-14

Understanding Series

Timothy S. Laniak

... king had honored him. Haman had every form of honor a Persian man could want (wealth, children, and public recognition). However, one person, a subordinate, withheld his formal respect and yet remained in the king’s service. Haman’s experience with Mordecai and his emotional reaction mirror those of the king with Vashti in chapter 1. Haman reports that all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king’s gate (v. 13). The verb for giving satisfaction (shvh) means ...

2753. Judgment and Hope

Isaiah 66:1-24

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... used only of Mephibosheth in 2 Sam. 4:4; 9:3), beaten down or smitten (this adjective comes from the verb nakah, used in 57:17; 58:4; 60:10—and 1:5; 53:4). Contrite gives the wrong impression. The word denotes not an attitude of sorrow but an emotional brokenness. They are people who tremble at my word, who have seen some of the things God has done to the people and are afraid that God may do it again. As in the link passage 57:14–21, the experience of being put down by God creates a division ...

2754. Jeremiah Buys a Field

Jeremiah 32:1-44

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... action). The result is that they will fear God. To fear God means to recognize one’s proper place in the universe. It is to acknowledge that there is a being who is greater than oneself; indeed a being who has the power of life and death. The emotion is not as extreme as horror, but neither is it as slight as respect. Closer than the picture of horror or respect is that of knee-knocking awe. Such awe would lead to good consequences for that present generation as well as those that succeeded them. The book ...

2755. Like Fighting a Giant Tuna

Romans 7:14-25a

Sermon

King Duncan

... than you normally would use. You delay your default behavior until (he or she) is gone. Every pastor has seen that happen. According to these studies, we have only limited reservoirs of self-control. So when we get stressed, tired, or otherwise emotionally or mentally preoccupied, our ability to will ourselves to eat properly, be polite, or any other positive behavior, wanes and we resort to ingrained or habitual behaviors. Some of these behaviors are not in our best interest. We’ll overeat or go ...

2756. Ready for the Big Date?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the future, go to your Jehovah-raah, your caring shepherd. When you are anxious about provision, talk to Jehovah-jireh, the Lord who provides. Are your challenges too great? Seek the help of Jehovah-shalom, the Lord is peace. Is your body sick? Are your emotions weak? Jehovah-rophe, the Lord heals you, will see you now. Do you feel like a soldier stranded behind enemy lines? Take refuge in Jehovah-nissi, the Lord my banner. (6) The best preparation for all of life is to be spiritually prepared. “Therefore ...

2757. Spiritually Prepared

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... best reason for being baptized is to welcome Christ into your life and to commit yourself to following him. That is why repentance is a necessary element of baptism. How can you open your heart to the love of Christ if you are still holding on to destructive emotions and practices? How can you follow him and live your life with no regard to the effect you are having on others? A seven-year-old girl once told her parents that she had to see her pastor. They asked her why. All she would say was, “Something ...

2758. Faces of Failure: The Disciples

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Don Tuttle

... Do you think he could say that if he didn’t know that Christ was going to see him through no matter what? That has been the experience of followers of Jesus throughout history. Oh, we’ve faced all kinds of storms. There have been emotional, family, financial, political, and social storms. There have been storms of disease, persecution, and temptation. And yet those who have faith in Jesus Christ, those who trust in him, have discovered time and again that we need not be afraid, for he is more powerful ...

2759. From Fear to Overflowing Joy

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the most crippling results of divorce on some children. “Why has Daddy abandoned me? Doesn’t he love me anymore?” Teenagers have much of the same devastation when called upon to handle the death of a parent. We are usually not aware of it, but that emotion stays with us through our entire lives. A new widow or widower will often have an overwhelming sense of abandonment. Such is also the experience of life without God. But God has not abandoned His people. The story’s told about a small village in ...

2760. The Mighty Wind of God

Acts 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... what God has called us to do? There’s only one way. We desperately need the Holy Spirit to fall upon us and transform us. A little girl was visiting her grandmother in a small country town in the South. They attended a very emotional religious service, where people expressed their feelings by jumping about and shouting . . . what we might call a “Holy Roller” service. The little girl asked her grandmother if all the jumping meant the Holy Spirit was really there. Her grandmother said, “Honey, it don ...

2761. Treasure Hidden In a Clay Jar

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... ministry, he was diagnosed with cancer. In 1994 and again in 1998, Jeremiah was diagnosed with lymphoma. In 1999, a nodule was surgically removed from his neck and he underwent stem cell transplant therapy. In his book Jeremiah writes about the physical and emotional toll of this treatment. He speaks candidly of his battle with pain, nausea, and deep depression. At the present time his cancer is in remission but the doctors have told him that there are no guarantees. The cancer could come back, or it ...

2762. His Name Is John

Luke 1:57-66, 80

Sermon

King Duncan

... . That’s okay. No one should ever be made to feel unworthy because they make this choice. But there are some couples who want desperately to have children. Often these are some of the best people in the world. They are able both financially and emotionally to be the very best of parents, but nature does not cooperate. Some will choose adoption. Others will choose to focus on each other and accept their childless state. A couple named Elizabeth and Zechariah fit in this latter category. They were an older ...

2763. Am I Eating Manna or Bread from Heaven?

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... the bread and the wine. I get it. I suspect that in doing so their child will be apt to ask questions about what's going on and will be able to express, in time, what his/her desire is regarding Holy Communion. Whatever your intellectual, emotional, theological, or spiritual experiences with Holy Communion, may this sacrament continue to be for you a holy, life-giving, mysterious magnet drawing you ever closer to the love of God who sent his son that we might never be hungry nor thirsty, this day, tomorrow ...

2764. The Lazarus Experience

John 11:17-44

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... Jesus raising him to new life and releasing him from the grave in 11:44. This is a rich text with much to say about family and friendship; it is about prayer and waiting for God to answer; it is about suffering and grief, about faith and deep emotion, about doubt and hope, and about death and dying. But most of all, the story of Lazarus is about the life-giving, resurrection power of God revealed in Jesus Christ. This theme runs throughout scripture. Psalm 130:1-2 begins, "Out of the depths I cry to you ...

2765. Could the Pharisees Have Been Irish?

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jewish community together over the centuries. And the Pharisees treasured the traditions of their people. What’s wrong with that? As we said, tradition can be a wonderful unifying force in a community. Traditions help us hold on to our past. Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. I won’t ask how many of you are into antiques. Someone spotted a sign in an antique shop: “Come In and Buy What Your Grandmother Threw Away.” Antiques like traditions help us hold onto the past. And some of us can be hypocritical ...

2766. What Really Counts

Mark 9:38-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... doctrinal purity. Think about the two instances cited in this short story. A man is casting out demons . . . As we’ve talked about before, we don’t really know what that means--to cast out demons. Is this another name for people with mental and emotional problems? Or maybe in that day and time a disease like epilepsy was thought to come from demon possession. We just don’t know. Whatever it means, it means someone was suffering. And here was someone who was trying to help the suffering person, and he ...

2767. Called to Love, Not Like

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... a few times when we say with Jeremiah: "O that I had in the desert a traveler's lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them!" (Jeremiah 9:2). Frederick Buechner has observed: "In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion, but an act of will."1 What is this saying to us about our faith's distinctive understanding of love? First, it says that love in the Christian sense has a cognitive dimension. When Jesus commands that we love, it is with the qualifier, "as I have loved ...

2768. The Year of the Woman

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... hormones like cortisol that are released in stressful situations. A friendly face, says one author, may be just as health giving as an aspirin or vitamin E. (3) It is not good for our health for us to be alone. It is also not good for our emotional well-being. Author J. Allan Petersen tells about a flight he took on a 747 out of Brazil one time. Midway through the flight he was awakened from sleep by a strong voice announcing, “We have a very serious emergency.” The emergency was that three engines had ...

2769. Four Magic Words

Psalm 126:1-6, Psalm 145:2-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... developing a grateful outlook helps us both recognize good things in our lives and realize that many of these good things are “gifts” that we have been fortunate to receive. “By making gratitude a habit,” says Robert Emmons, we can begin to change the emotional tone of our lives, creating more space for joy and connection with others.” In her article, Dr. Breines lists some simple things we can do to increase our sense of gratitude. I’m going to list three of them. The first is very familiar ...

2770. Wilderness Work

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... of God comes to us — to Cathy and Joan, to Bob and Joe, to Scott and to Lily — the word of God comes to us in the wilderness. Prepare a way for the Lord. Examine your life. Examine your priorities, your values, your behavior. Check out your emotional, your spiritual, and your ethical life. Are you headed in the right direction? Are you headed in the direction of the good? Are you headed in the direction of God? And if not, then repent, turn around, and change direction. Are you unhealthy — your blood ...

2771. How Angry Are You?

Luke 4:21-30

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... . I’m not even angry most of the time, but I am angry some of the time. And unlike a few years ago, I’ve decided that in some situations, my anger is okay. As the Bible so vividly shows, anger is a normal and necessary human emotion and very often, anger can be a catalyst for transformation, for creativity, and for new life. The early desert fathers and mothers borrowed a metaphor from Plato and used it to describe the Christian life. They suggested that the human personality is like a chariot pulled by ...

2772. In the Light of His Glory

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... a guard, or perhaps an officer of some kind--definitely a figure invested with authority. “Ladies,” he says, “please don’t squeeze the Charmin!” The three women continue to squeeze the rolls, with even more intensity. The guard, overcome by emotion, himself begins to squeeze a roll. One woman squeals: “I just can’t help it, Mr. Whipple.” Nervously the guard squeezes even harder. “See, Mr. Whipple, Charmin’s so squeezably soft!” Amazed at the apparent significance of this archaeological ...

2773. The Reception was Excellent

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . When she returned she said that the boys would have to keep the money, because the company wasn’t going to send a man all the way out to the school just to collect a few dollars. The businessman looked over at Patricia Laye and chuckled, but there was emotion in his voice. He said they laughed all the way back to their dorm room. After counting the money, they had $7.20. They decided to use the money to buy food from a nearby grocery store and to go job hunting after class. When they told the manager ...

2774. What Will It Take to Make You Happy?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... life by Him. “And I will guarantee, on the basis of everything I have seen happen in my ministry, that you will become optimistic; you will become victorious; you will have peace in your heart; you will love people; you will feel good physically and emotionally. You will have a wonderful life.” (2) You may agree with that or not, but I believe Dr. Peale was on to something--something that the world just doesn’t get. Happiness isn’t something that happens to you on the outside, but something that ...

2775. A GPS for Your Life

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... listening, he offers a philosophy of life that provides not only hope, but salvation as well. Pastor Lloyd John Ogilvie once told of a man who was working a crossword puzzle. He asked his friends, “What’s a four-letter word for a strong emotional reaction to difficulty?” One man responded “Fear.” The other friend answered, “Love.” (3) If you think about it for a moment, those are the two words that generally define how we respond to life situations. We respond either with fear or love. Jesus ...

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